Saturday, August 13, 2005

Apsara




APSARA, if it is strong-willed and single-minded, will put the management, the promotion and the exploration of the Khmer cultural heritage into Khmer hands, even while it is a world heritage, into the same hands that sculpted it, that caressed it and protected it for so many centuries. And it will do this in the only way possible : by helping to form a new generation of qualified, caring Khmer specialists - technicians - intellectuals - thinkers and doers, who will be capable, on this international stage, of standing in the present with an arm around the past and eyes on the future.
His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia. More detail